From the October 2024 Issue Clerics & Crooks The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin By Lucy Ash LR
From the May 2024 Issue Less Vodka, More Cricket The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century By Barbara Emerson LR
From the February 2024 Issue Better Dead Than Red A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution By Anna Reid LR
From the November 2023 Issue Ten Years That Shook the World Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914–1924 By Robert Service LR
From the May 2023 Issue The Poet & the Tyrant Osip Mandelstam: A Biography By Ralph Dutli (Translated from German by Ben Fowkes) Tristia By Osip Mandelstam (Translated from Russian by Thomas de Waal)
From the March 2023 Issue That Teacheth My Hands to War Ploughshares into Swords By Vladislav Vančura (Translated from Czech by David Short) LR
From the July 2022 Issue Four Years That Shook the World Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917–1921 By Antony Beevor LR
From the June 2022 Issue Love in a Cold City Deceit By Yuri Felsen (Translated from Russian by Bryan Karetnyk) LR
From the February 2022 Issue Editor-in-Chief of the USSR Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books By Geoffrey Roberts LR
From the November 2021 Issue Prophet of Doom Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev By Glenn Cronin LR
From the May 2021 Issue Eau de Hammer & Sickle The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow By Karl Schlögel (Translated from German by Jessica Spengler) LR
From the March 2021 Issue The Lesser Evil? Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag By Julius Margolin (Translated from Russian by Stefani Hoffman) LR
From the February 2021 Issue The Eternal Husband Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life By Alex Christofi LR
From the December 2020 Issue Pro-Sex, Anti-Stalin Collected Poems By Robert Conquest (Edited by Elizabeth Conquest) LR
From the July 2020 Issue All the President’s Murderers Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West By Catherine Belton Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West By Luke Harding Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia By Joshua Yaffa LR
From the June 2020 Issue Hitler’s More Willing Executioners Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust By Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff LR
From the May 2020 Issue The Monks who Came in from the Cold Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power By Gregory Afinogenov LR
From the March 2020 Issue Sorrows of Hungary Katalin Street By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix) Abigail By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix) LR
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